Author: John George Lambton Earl of DurhamPublisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Lord Durham's Report on the Affairs of British North America
Author: John George Lambton Earl of DurhamPublisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The Durham Report and British Policy
Author: Ged MartinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521085304
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
In 1838 Lord Melbourne's Whig government in Britain sent the radical Lord Durham to Canada as Governor-General to deal with a colony in the aftermath of a rebellion. Durham's vanity and arrogance made him a poor choice for the post, and he resigned a few months later after the government had been forced to overrule him for exceeding his powers. After his return to Britain he wrote his Report on the Affairs of British North America - and its unauthorized publication in the Times caused a sensation. This report - the famous 'Durham Report' - has been seen as the starting point of the British tradition of colonial self-rule leading through the Statute of Westminster of 1931 to the independent self-governing Commonwealth of today.
Lord Durham's Report on the Affairs of British North America
Author: John George Lambton Earl of DurhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Political Thought of Lord Durham
Author: Janet AjzenstatPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773506374
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Lord Durham's Report on the Affairs of British North America is usually discussed only in terms of its historical context - the events that brought Durham to Canada and the consequences of the Report's reform proposals. In a markedly different approach, Janet Ajzenstat treats the Report as a text in modern political thought. She develops Durham's underlying arguments and assumptions, demonstrating the essentially liberal character of his recommendations and revealing a tough-minded argument about political freedom and the place of national minorities in a free society.
Introduction
Author: John George Lambton Earl of DurhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Report on the Affairs of British North America
Author: John George Lambton Earl of DurhamPublisher: London? : s.n.
ISBN:
Category : Act of Union, 1841
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Durham County
Author: Jean Bradley AndersonPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822349833
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
This sweeping history of Durham County, North Carolina, extends from the seventeenth century to the end of the twentieth.
British Colonial Policy in the Age of Peel and Russell
Author: W.P. MorrellPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000855546
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
British Colonial Policy in the Age of Peel and Russell (1930) examines British colonial administration during the administrations of Sir Robert Peel and Lord John Russell. In this period, 1815–41, new ideas were adopted and colonial policy was revolutionized. British attitudes towards colonization and Australia, New Zealand and North America underwent radical changes.
A History of the Vote in Canada
Author: Elections CanadaPublisher: Chief Electoral Officer of Canada
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Cet ouvrage couvre la période qui va de 1758 à nos jours.
Canadian Founding
Author: Janet AjzenstatPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773575936
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Convinced that rights are inalienable and that legitimate government requires the consent of the governed, the Fathers of Confederation - whether liberal or conservative - looked to the European enlightenment and John Locke. Janet Ajzenstat analyzes the legislative debates in the colonial parliaments and the Constitution Act (1867) in a provocative reinterpretation of Canadian political history from 1864 to 1873. Ajzenstat contends that the debt to Locke is most evident in the debates on the making of Canada's Parliament: though the anti-confederates maintained that the existing provincial parliaments offered superior protection for individual rights, the confederates insisted that the union's general legislature, the Parliament of Canada, would prove equal to the task and that the promise of "life and liberty" would bring the scattered populations of British North America together as a free nation.